The Love of Books and ReadingH. Holt, 1910 - 158 páginas |
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... passion among certain Greeks and Romans . Horace tells his readers to turn over and over again the pages of the Greek writers ; Cicero de- clares that reading , Emollit mores nec sinit esse feros , while we shall see later with what 1 ...
... passion among certain Greeks and Romans . Horace tells his readers to turn over and over again the pages of the Greek writers ; Cicero de- clares that reading , Emollit mores nec sinit esse feros , while we shall see later with what 1 ...
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... passion with the Romans that we hear , from time to time a warning voice , even as in later times . Thus Seneca says , " the reading of many authors and the great- est variety of books produces a vague and unsteady state of mind . We ...
... passion with the Romans that we hear , from time to time a warning voice , even as in later times . Thus Seneca says , " the reading of many authors and the great- est variety of books produces a vague and unsteady state of mind . We ...
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... passionate lover of books , the great apostle of the modern reader . A small sized volume could be compiled of all the notable things he has said of books and reading . From his earliest youth he was an incessant reader , and this passion ...
... passionate lover of books , the great apostle of the modern reader . A small sized volume could be compiled of all the notable things he has said of books and reading . From his earliest youth he was an incessant reader , and this passion ...
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... passion for books was unquenchable ; " Libris satiari nequeo , " he says . It became almost a disease . " Gold , silver , marble palaces , fields , horses , delight me but little . Books only give us true and substantial satisfaction ...
... passion for books was unquenchable ; " Libris satiari nequeo , " he says . It became almost a disease . " Gold , silver , marble palaces , fields , horses , delight me but little . Books only give us true and substantial satisfaction ...
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... , almost equal to Petrarch is Montaigne , although he is not so enthusiastic or passionate . He may be taken as the type of a rational user of books , ready to drop them when they threaten to become harmful . 8 The Love of Books and ...
... , almost equal to Petrarch is Montaigne , although he is not so enthusiastic or passionate . He may be taken as the type of a rational user of books , ready to drop them when they threaten to become harmful . 8 The Love of Books and ...
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ancient art of reading Augustine beautiful Cadoc Carlyle century Charles Lamb Christian Cicero classics Consolation Consolation of Philosophy cries Dante Dante's death declares deep delight discussion Divina Commedia Emerson enthusiasm Epicurus especially eyes famous Fathers feel genius George Chapman Goethe Greek heart heaven Homer honor Horace human Iliad influence inspired intellectual kind of reading knowledge language light literary lived Lord Lord Tennyson love and admiration love for reading Lucretius master ment Middle Ages Milton mind modern Molière nature never noble Paradise Lost passion pedantry personal love Petrarch philosophy Plato pleasure Plutarch poem poëme poetry poets praise prose writers readers religion Renaissance Roman sacred Sainte-Beuve says scholar sense serene Shakspere solitude soul speak spirit tells Tennyson things Thou thought tion to-day translation true truth ultimate ideal universal vast Vergil verse voice Voltaire volume whole words youth
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Página 100 - Homer ruled as his demesne: Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Página 2 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Página 23 - But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession...
Página 80 - With what joy I begin to read a poem, which I confide in as an inspiration ! And now my chains are to be broken ; I shall mount above these clouds and opaque airs in which I live — opaque, though they seem transparent — and from the heaven of truth I shall see and comprehend my relations.
Página 112 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Página 149 - Chi dietro a iura, e chi ad aforismi Sen giva, e chi seguendo sacerdozio, E chi regnar per forza o per sofismi, E chi rubare, e chi civil negozio, Chi, nel diletto della carne involto, S...
Página 15 - Just such is the feeling which a man of liberal education naturally entertains towards the great minds of former ages. The debt which he owes to them is incalculable. They have guided him to truth. They have filled his mind with noble and graceful images. They have stood by him in all vicissitudes, comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude.
Página 113 - Shakespeare, thy gift, I place before my sight; With awe, I ask his blessing ere I write ; With reverence look on his majestic face; Proud to be less, but of his godlike race.
Página 21 - Wise men have said are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge; As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
Página 31 - ... idle, unwholesome, and (as I may term them) vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness and life of spirit, but no soundness of matter or goodness of quality.